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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Conway confirms Trump wanted FBI informant's gag order lifted — Washington (CNN)In response to reporting that President Donald Trump personally pressed for an informant's gag order to be lifted, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said Friday that he wanted the informant to be free to speak out.
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
THE MAKINGS OF A GOP PSEUDO-SCANDAL — This week, House Republicans launched two joint investigations, spanning three congressional committees, aimed at sowing confusion about the nature of Russian influence over last year's election. — This isn't liberal gloss on a series of news developments …
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Prosenzweig / Lawfare:
Unpacking Uranium One: Hype and Law — Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, delivering remarks in 2010. (Photo: Flickr/U.S. Embassy in New Zealand) — The latest instance of “what-aboutism” is the House Republican decision to open an investigation of the Uranium One transaction …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Coming Russia Bombshells
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Eleanor McManus / CNN:
I'm writing this to make sure other young women won't stay silent like I did — Mark Halperin apologizes after sexual harassment claims — Eleanor McManus: When I was just out of college, in a private informational meeting with Mark Halperin, he tried to kiss me and attempted a bit more
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
'I don't want to sit on your lap,' she thought. But, she alleges, Mark Halperin insisted. — Dianna Goldberg was a young researcher at ABC News in 1994 when she asked a colleague, Mark Halperin, for some information about a story. He readily agreed to help her and asked her to come to his office.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Post-Halperin, female media exec calls out “the screamers” — A well-known female veteran of the media business emailed me as new revelations were posted about Mark Halperin: … There's clearly a lot of screaming in tech, as well as in media and movies. — The excuse many men gave …
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Helena Horton / Telegraph:
British newspaper received mystery call minutes before JFK assassination — A British newspaper received a mystery call minutes before the assassination of John F Kennedy. — This is one of the most astonishing revelations from the JFK files, released on Thursday.
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NBC News:
Release of JFK Assassination File Is Delayed as Deadline Looms
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Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
JFK assassination files reveal Hoover's frustration over Oswald's death, Soviet reaction
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump bowing to CIA on JFK files is a reminder of how the presidency changes people
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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
This Is What the Trump Abyss Looks Like — The past week was another watershed, it seems to me, in the rising power of Donald Trump. Flake is quitting; Corker is retiring; McCain is mortal. Sasse, Murkowski, Collins, and Paul remain, but the odds are mounting against them.
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BBC:
Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain — The Catalan regional parliament has voted to declare independence from Spain, while the Spanish parliament has approved direct rule over the region. — Catalan MPs backed the motion 70-10 in a ballot boycotted by the opposition.
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RedState, Telegraph, The Guardian, New York Magazine, IJR and Vox Popoli
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Foreign Policy:
State Department Scraps Sanctions Office — The Trump administration is three weeks late on Russia sanctions. But it's killed the office that coordinates them. — The State Department shuttered an office that oversees sanctions policy, even as the Donald Trump administration faces criticism …
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Tillerson eliminates key State Department sanctions office: report
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Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:
Leon Wieseltier: A Reckoning — It was never an “open secret” among me and my then-colleagues that Leon Wieseltier, the longtime literary czar of The New Republic, behaved inappropriately with women in the workplace. It was simply out in the open. This week, Wieseltier's previously …
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Lloyd Grove / Vanity Fair:
The Very Busy, Very Unproductive Life of Leon Wieseltier
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ESPN:
Gaffes, TV ratings concerns dominated as NFL, players forged anthem peace — NOBODY KNEW WHERE to sit. Side by side or across from one another? — It was the final question raised by a group of 11 NFL team owners as they mingled inside the sixth-floor conference room …
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The Attempted Remaking of Michael Grimm — Steve Bannon looked at a convicted felon — and saw a populist. — It was Friday, which meant it was Michael Grimm's cheat day. — The muscle mass he carried during his time as a Marine, an undercover FBI agent, and even as a congressman has …
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Washington Post:
Gillespie's ads are poisonous to Virginia and the nation — (Pete Marovich/For The Washington Post) — SINCE 2001, when he was convicted of a sex offense and served a brief prison term, and early this year, when he was convicted on child-pornography charges, Virginia resident John Bowen …
Elana Schor / Politico:
GOP eyes end of Russia probes with Trump collusion unanswered — Republican lawmakers say they're approaching the end of their investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election even though the most politically explosive issue — whether associates of President Donald Trump colluded …
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New York Times:
‘Terry Richardson Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg’ — This week, in an apparently defensive move after a social media outcry, the biggest fashion magazines cut ties with the photographer Terry Richardson over his history of alleged sexual harassment. — On Monday, The Telegraph broke …
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FiveThirtyEight:
The First FBI Crime Report Issued Under Trump Is Missing A Ton Of Info — Every year, the FBI releases a report that is considered the gold standard for tracking crime statistics in the United States: the Crime in the United States report, a collection of crime statistics gathered …
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
How Congress plays by different rules on sexual harassment and misconduct — Briony Whitehouse was a 19-year-old intern in 2003 when she boarded an elevator in the Russell Senate Office Building with a Republican senator, who she said groped her until the doors reopened.
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Notches Solid 3% Economic Growth, Despite Hurricanes — GDP growth strong in the face of storms that temporarily shuttered major population centers in Texas and Florida — WASHINGTON—The U.S. economy posted its best six-month stretch of growth in three years, rebounding quickly …
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Kaja Whitehouse / New York Post:
De Blasio donor's shocking testimony: $100K bought me the mayor — Mayor Bill de Blasio and donor Jona Rechnitz — A Mayor Bill de Blasio donor-turned-felon testified in extraordinary detail Thursday that he and his businessman pals wrote the book on city corruption …
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Tim Elfrink / Miami New Times:
CIA Considered Bombing Miami and Killing Refugees to Blame Castro … This might come as a grave shock, but Donald Trump's bold promises earlier this week to finally blow the lid off the JFK assassination mystery by declassifying reams of secret documents turned out to be a gigantic tease.
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Raw Story
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
How Team Hillary played the press for fools on Russia — MORE FROM: … Hillary Clinton's campaign didn't just pay for the Kremlin-aided smear job on Donald Trump before the election; she continued to use the dirt after the election to frame her humiliating loss as a Russian conspiracy to steal the election.
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Samantha Liss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Amazon gains wholesale pharmacy licenses in multiple states — Throughout the past year, and without much fanfare, Amazon.com Inc. has gained approval to become a wholesale distributor from a number of state pharmaceutical boards, according to a review of public records.
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Frank Bajak / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Georgia election server wiped after suit filed — https://apnews.com/877ee1015f1c43f1965f 63538b035d3f — Link copied! — A computer server crucial to a lawsuit against Georgia election officials was quietly wiped clean by its custodians just after the suit was filed, The Associated Press has learned.
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Radley Balko / Washington Post:
Mississippi judge resigns after barring mother from seeing newborn because of unpaid court fees — Even in the annals of “oppressive things done to poor people due to unpaid court fees,” this story seems particularly monstrous. It comes via a press release from the MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi.
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